“I shuddered at the idea of this incarnate fiend, whose soul is black with shocking crimes, mingling free and unobserved amongst the harmless crowds, meditating perhaps a new and more fearful cycle of infamies. I tell you, sir, that an awful being stalks through the streets, a being before whom the sunlight itself should blacken, and the summer air grow chill and dank.” EvilFiend Book:The Three Impostors Source: The Three Impostors
“I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremely good; but the supremely wicked, necessarily, have their portion in it. The merely carnal, sensual man can no more be a great sinner than he can be a great saint. Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.” EvilGoodSinner Book:The White People and Other Weird Stories Source: The White People and Other Weird Stories
“There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.” MenWorldWellsMaySometimesMovingEvilBeliefReturnEvolutionShadowTrackAwfulTwilightSacramentsCavesDwellersUnknown Worlds Book:The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen Source: The White People and Other Stories: The Best Weird Tales of Arthur Machen
